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G. O. HOYT. WOVEN TAPE.

No. 445,141. I Patented Jan. 20, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES C. IIOYT, ()1 REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO TIIE HOPE IVEEBING COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE, RIIODE ISLAND.

WOVEN TAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,141, dated January 20, 1891.

Application filed April 25,1890.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. lIOYT, oi": Revere, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and use- 5 ful Improvement in \Voven Tapes; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in tape used for the loops for boots and shoes; and it consists in providing such tapes with two strands of cord extending lengthwise through the tape parallel with and at some distance from the outeredges of the tape.

Boot and shoe loops, used for drawing on the boot or shoe, are subjected to considerable strain, and must be sufiiciently flexible to contract laterally, so as to adjust themselves to the interior of the bent finger or fingers inserted into the loop in drawing on the boot or shoe. To secure both of these advantages, I insert two longitudinal strengtheningcords, so as to leave flexible margins on both 2 5 edges outside the cords, which margins will,

in use, readily adjust themselves to the inner 1 bent surface of the finger or fingers, and will a not out the flesh as would a rigid loop or a loop having the cords embedded at the edges.

0 Figure 1 is a view of one side of my improved tape, and Fig. 52 is a transverse sectional view of the same.

In the drawings, the letters (1 indicate the two marginal edges of the tape. These margins are of the thickness of the fabric, and as flexible as the ordinary tape.

1) indicates the central portion of the web of the tape, and c the strengthening-cords. The space between the cords is usually twice the width of each of the margins, the distance from center to center of the cords being usually about half the width of the tape.

Serial No. 349,548. (Specimens) The tape is usually woven in a narrow positive-motion loom, the cords c c forminga portion of the warp, the weft or filling being interwoven with the warp in the usual manner; or the weft may be carried alternately above and below the two strengthening-cords, thus forming longitudinal ribs or raised portions, by which the tape is divided into the narrow 5o margins a between the selvage and the longitudinal ribs, and the wider space 1) between the two longitudinal ribs. The fabric forming the margins to and the central strip Z2 is flexible,whi1e the longitudinal ribs are made g rigid and inelastic by the strengthening-cords c c. The cords may be made of cotton, hemp, linen, or other suitable material that will impart the desired strength to the tape.

In use the flexible margins a will yield oc slightly, so as to conform to the interior of the bent finger or fingers, exerting a yielding pressure on the flesh, while the cords and the 1 central portion 1) will bear on the flesh between the first and second joint of the fingers.

llavin g thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A tape consistine. of the longitudinal margins a a and the central strip b of flexible 7o woven fabric, and the raised longitudinal ribs formed by laying the weft around the longitudinal rigid cords c c, as described.

2. A tape of flexible woven fabric having two longitudinal ribs, one near each edge, of greater longitudinal strength than the rest of the fabric.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

CHARLES C. llO YT.

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